Discharge papers

[GoingThere]

Every time I come from a hospital and get discharge papers I laugh how many medical diagnosis I have. Soon A4 paper will not be enough  .
Currently I have 11 different medical diagnosis. Not bad for a 37 year old male 
How do you stand with your medical diagnosis?

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[Sax-O-Trix]

It's a good thing we get those dx...  I didn't even know I had sepsis twice last year until I read the discharge papers for another issue.  Yeow!  I mean I knew I had a bad infection both time (in-patient),  but didn't realize it was that bad.  There are a bunch of other dx from my recent-past discharge papers that I don't dare to look up, lol.

[jbeany]

I always love the teeeeeeny little spaces they give on the intake sheets for listing things like conditions, surgeries and meds.....I'm usually scribbling things like "too many times to count" in the margins after my list.

[jeannea]

I always love the huge medication list more han the diagnosis. Plus my hospital really only puts the reason you were admitted that time on the discharge papers not everything. My worst was the time my transplant failed. That was a long list but I can't remember how many. I did leave with permission from 9 different departments.

[Riki]

I was never given that information, and if I was, it was in a sealed envelope for my family doctor.  I'd love to see some of the stuff they've said about me in those letters.  I'd especially like to see what they said after I was discharged the first time I had peritonitis, because I was treated so badly by the nurses and doctors when I was there, because they thought I had infected myself to get attention.

[jjneyjr]

Sounds like something House would say!   

[kitkatz]

My Kaiser doctor loves me because I have several things going on at once and he can bill for treating me all at once.  All he is doing is making sure I am still alive.

[Emerson Burick]

I always love the teeeeeeny little spaces they give on the intake sheets for listing things like conditions, surgeries and meds.....I'm usually scribbling things like "too many times to count" in the margins after my list.

At this point I've given up on those. I print out my own sheet with one section for surgeries (month/year, reason, hospital), another for dates/kinds of chemo, and a section for the dozen drugs I take (with generic and brand names). I just write "See attached" on the hospital form.

[thegrammalady]

I was never given that information, and if I was, it was in a sealed envelope for my family doctor.  I'd love to see some of the stuff they've said about me in those letters.  I'd especially like to see what they said after I was discharged the first time I had peritonitis, because I was treated so badly by the nurses and doctors when I was there, because they thought I had infected myself to get attention.

legally your medical records are your property, they are just kept in the custody of your doctor or hospital. i would open each and every sealed report, you have the right to the information. and if you request the hospital or doctors office must by law provide you with a private place on their premises to review your entire medical file. so if they give you a sealed reprot in the future, go ahead and read it.

[Riki]

I was never given that information, and if I was, it was in a sealed envelope for my family doctor.  I'd love to see some of the stuff they've said about me in those letters.  I'd especially like to see what they said after I was discharged the first time I had peritonitis, because I was treated so badly by the nurses and doctors when I was there, because they thought I had infected myself to get attention.

legally your medical records are your property, they are just kept in the custody of your doctor or hospital. i would open each and every sealed report, you have the right to the information. and if you request the hospital or doctors office must by law provide you with a private place on their premises to review your entire medical file. so if they give you a sealed reprot in the future, go ahead and read it.

They were always very secretive about it. When I was a kid, they didn't even like me holding the binder that held all my charts